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...Mullen's 25-year-old son Michael was killed by friendly fire when a U.S. artillery shell struck near the South Vietnamese village of Tu Chanh. His mother, brokenhearted, did what any other mother would--or should--do when her child is killed in an illegal and immoral war: she went on a search for the truth. Mullen, an Iowa homemaker who died on Oct. 2 at 92, spent more than two decades probing her son's death. In 1995 she published her findings in a book called Unfriendly Fire: A Mother's Memoir, which painted a scathing portrait...
...possibly do this in reality—after all, capitalist temptations were lying in wait to seduce and entrap those good Communist citizens. Instead, the Soviet government chose to “build their own ‘Abroad’ in the Steppes of southern Russia, near Stavropol, with a real city, and many inhabitants,” a charade which lasted until a foreign journalist got hold of the story...
...northwest-Punjab militant nexus became brutally illumined on Thursday as the violence swung from near the Afghan border, to the edges of the Indian one, and back again. Before the attacks in Lahore, a suicide car bomb exploded near a police station in the northwest's Kohat city, killing three police officers and eight civilians. And when the Lahore violence was over, another car bomb exploded in Peshawar, killing a six-year-old boy and wounded nine others, mainly women and children. Security is also being beefed up in Karachi, Pakistan's financial capital and biggest city - and the only...
...understand the state of bullfighting in Spain's northeastern Catalonia region, you need look no further than Las Arenas. The striking, late 19th century arena with faux Moorish arches, located near Barcelona's central Plaza de España, once pulled in thousands of bullfighting aficionados for the traditional - and gory - Sunday corrida (the Spanish word for "bullfight"). Today, it is being converted into a shopping mall...
...Tree lives near Barcelona's one remaining bullring - the city used to have three - and he collected signatures in favor of the initiative to ban the sport. As he describes it, the only people who regularly fill the stands are tourists. "You get all these drunken tourists who come and yell their heads off as an animal is brutally killed. And they're only there because they think they're in a normal part of Spain, and that's what you do in Spain." (See pictures of Spain's Madcap Tomato Festival, La Tomatina...